February 2018
Beginner
580 pages
13h 20m
English
Content preview from Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming - Second Edition
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Getting started with real Universal Robots hardware and ROS-I
After testing our control algorithms in simulation using Gazebo, we can start to perform manipulation tasks with a real Universal Robots arm. The main difference between performing a trajectory simulating the robot and using real hardware, is that we need to start the driver that will contact the arm controller to set the desired joint positions.
The default driver of Universal Robot arms is released with the ur_driver package of ROS-I. This driver has been successfully tested with system versions ranging from v1.5.7 to v1.8.2. The last version of Universal Robot controllers is v3.2, so the default version of the ROS-I driver could be not fully compatible. For the newer versions ...